Mystery solved
Well, this is embarrassing.
Remember back in June when Jersey was frantically looking for a book she'd read years before that was set in Mobile, Alabama around the time of a Jubilee?
She was desperate to find the novel for two reasons.
1) She really liked it.
2) Jersey Junior's Cute Alabama Boyfriend had arrived and Jersey wanted to share the book with the college kids.
She remembered a few key things about this particular novel.
She knew it was written by a woman and that her copy was waterlogged because she'd left it outside on an Adirondack chair during a freak - or was it freaking - summer storm. She also remembered loaning it to another Villette who NEVER BOTHERED TO RETURN IT.
Ahem.
So, imagine Jersey's surprise when, in the course of cleaning JJ's room, something caught her eye. Over there, in the bookcase.
Yep. It was THE book. And oh look, it does not have "Jubilee" anywhere in the title.
But it is, indeed, waterlogged.
Jersey's going to reread it and if "This One and Magic Life" is as compelling as she remembers, she'll recommend it.
And, as penance for accusing her pals of stealing her book, she will offer to loan her long-lost personal copy to anyone who wants it. Although, considering its condition, who'd really want to touch it?
So, she may just tuck it in her suitcase next weekend when she heads to Oxford to see JJ and JJCAB at the Ole Miss-Alabama football game. Hey, they're in college. They're used to handling items that are saturated.
PS If there is a stupid-Ray-Ban-Wearing emoticom in the text, don't blame me. It arrived unsummoned and keeps coming back no matter what I do to lose it.
Remember back in June when Jersey was frantically looking for a book she'd read years before that was set in Mobile, Alabama around the time of a Jubilee?
She was desperate to find the novel for two reasons.
1) She really liked it.
2) Jersey Junior's Cute Alabama Boyfriend had arrived and Jersey wanted to share the book with the college kids.
She remembered a few key things about this particular novel.
She knew it was written by a woman and that her copy was waterlogged because she'd left it outside on an Adirondack chair during a freak - or was it freaking - summer storm. She also remembered loaning it to another Villette who NEVER BOTHERED TO RETURN IT.
Ahem.
So, imagine Jersey's surprise when, in the course of cleaning JJ's room, something caught her eye. Over there, in the bookcase.
Yep. It was THE book. And oh look, it does not have "Jubilee" anywhere in the title.
But it is, indeed, waterlogged.
Jersey's going to reread it and if "This One and Magic Life" is as compelling as she remembers, she'll recommend it.
And, as penance for accusing her pals of stealing her book, she will offer to loan her long-lost personal copy to anyone who wants it. Although, considering its condition, who'd really want to touch it?
So, she may just tuck it in her suitcase next weekend when she heads to Oxford to see JJ and JJCAB at the Ole Miss-Alabama football game. Hey, they're in college. They're used to handling items that are saturated.
PS If there is a stupid-Ray-Ban-Wearing emoticom in the text, don't blame me. It arrived unsummoned and keeps coming back no matter what I do to lose it.
I'm rather upset because I can't seem to figure out what on Earth you meant by "they are college kids, they're used to handling items that are saturated" ?
hmm...
Also it has been two weeks and I have yet to see the book arrive, with you, or by other means, such as the "priority package" you were sending the way of your poor daughter who is a thousand miles away from home.
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